How the H E double hockey sticks do I stream music?!


Hello everyone (reading this),
I just “finished” building my two channel, living room system, and I’m very happy. I use a turntable, CD player and a headphone amp. Now I want to add streaming to the mix. In my kitchen I use a Sonos one with Spotify, and I love it. The ease and having music always available is great! So now I’m looking for a way to plug something (this is where you all come in) into my DAC (USB) that allows me to open Spotify, choose a song and jam out in my living room. I’d like to get something from around $300ish and under, that’s Bluetooth in and USB out, that works with Spotify and sounds great. If you have suggestions for anything above $300, I’d still like to hear them for future upgrades. Thank you so much for any help y’all can give. This is a wonderful community, and it has already helped me out so much.

*Also... I’d like to use my phone to control the music.
jedisomeguy

Showing 1 response by reubent

For under $300, (actually under $120)

https://theauris.com/products/auris-blumehd-true-hi-fi-bluetooth-music-receiver

The Auris BluMe HD bluetooth receiver is really good. It is not a streamer. It's simply a high quality bloothooth receiver with a decent built-in DAC. It also has digital output, but not sure if it is coax/toslink only or if it also has USD. I use mine connected both via analog and via digital to my DAC and I hear very little difference.

Anyway, you just connect to it via bluetooth from your phone, tablet, laptop, etc. and play your Spotify. Works great and Spotify has an awesome user interface and great catalog. I use this setup every day. 

If I were going to subscribe to a streaming service that had hi-res (CD or better) quality, I would probably by a Bluesound Node 2i streamer ($550)

Good luck, have fun and enjoy the music.....